Sentence examples for hand a phrase from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Gordon Brown, Britain's chancellor of the Exchequer, made a case for Smith as a proto-socialist who believed as much in "the helping hand" (a phrase Smith never used) as the invisible hand (a phrase that Smith famously used, but only three times).

On the other hand (a phrase I have used often, since part of what I try to offer is the other point of view), even in the longest, most complex and agonising situation, the essential piece of advice I always returned to was: listen and talk more.

If, on the other hand, a phrase provides information about a noun that is crucial to the point of the sentence (as in "Every Cambridge restaurant which failed to clean its grease trap was infested with roaches", where omitting the italicised phrase would radically alter the meaning), and if it is pronounced within the same intonation contour as the noun, then don't set it off with punctuation.

"I can't do yoga," on the other hand, is a phrase that might lead you then to think, "so there's no point in putting myself through the torture of going to a class".

Augusta National rewards long hitters, but it reserves its greatest rewards for those who also have "the touch of the velvet hand," to borrow a phrase from John Lennon.

"Happy Hand," Cano replied, a phrase prosecutors interpreted to mean strangling.

We too want to feel like "the future of the world is in our hands," to borrow a phrase.

Posh people, on the other hand are, to use a phrase they would understand, fair game.

Unsurprisingly in a country where men still very much have the upper hand, a fair few phrases are set for the chop.

The result in Conant's hands is, to borrow a phrase that my colleague Frank Bruni, then the restaurant critic for The New York Times, used in his 2008 review, "pure Mediterranean bliss".

To spend some time with Mr. Carrión is to watch a natural politician blithely ignore conventional wisdom and revel in retail politics; showing off dance moves at a senior center as Latin music blares, routinely calling everyone "brother" or "hermano," and clapping his hands and often barking a phrase twice as a motivational tool.